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License File not publishing

We are useing a 3rd party component that requires a license file to be included in the bin directory. But when the site is published, the file is missing and it has to be manually copied onto the production server. How can I get this file to be included?
I have looked at deployment projects, but they seem way over complicated for what I need to do.

Re: License File not publishing

You need to copy the application files you have created from your development computer to the production Web server that will host your application. You can use the XCOPY command-line tool or your preferred FTP application to copy the files from one location
to another.

Re: License File not publishing

I am using Beyond Compare to do a similar process now. I Publish the Web Application to a folder on my laptop and then use Beyond Compare to update the production server without incurring changes to the License file or the production web.config. It would
just be nice to publish it directly from VS without needing the extra step to verify that changes have not occurred to these files. Perhaps MS will take this into account on a future release.

Re: License File not publishing

I am using Beyond Compare to do a similar process now. I Publish the Web Application to a folder on my laptop and then use Beyond Compare to update the production server without incurring changes to the License file or the production web.config. It would
just be nice to publish it directly from VS without needing the extra step to verify that changes have not occurred to these files. Perhaps MS will take this into account on a future release.